The-Leader_1974-03-14

              THE LEADER Salutes
Freeport H.S.'s Basketball Team
(see Pages 6 & 7)
/
FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
THE lEABER FREEPORT S
omcini
NEWSPAPER
38th YEAR No. 46 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 1974 Pl^CIf: 15(/PHR(0I'Y
Appoint Economic Developer
FHS Winners
FREEFOriT -- Four Freeport
High SCIIOHJstudents were muimg
the winners, in I he Nassau
County round, in the Long Island
Math Fair held Friday, MareJi 1.
• Robert Blaine and Michael Oli.
H.S. juniors, Douglas Salveson,
grade 9 and William Cook, grade
10, presented topies before a'
panel of judges who had
previously received eopies of tJie
students' competition projects.
The four FIIS winners will now
goon lo the Nassau-Suffolkj;ound
of competition, to be held Marcii
22 at Hofstra University.
Guest Conductor
FREEPORT - Mr. Kirk_ M.
Dunklee, Director of Music for
the Freeport Public Schools, has
been invited to guest conduct an
April li Junior High School
Festival Chorus at East Hampton
High School,
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CHURCH MOVESTO NORTH MAIN ST. The Bethel A.M.E. Church
celebrated the cornerstone laying of its new building last Saturday.
Wayor William H. White {in. top photo) presented the Key to
Freeport to Bishop Rt. Rev. Ernest Lawrence Hickman, Presiding
Bishop First Episcopal District, A.M.E. Church. Lower photo shows
Rev. S. Frank Emmanuel (L), Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church, with
Mrs. Emmanuel, the Reverend's mother, and Bishop Rt. Rev, Hick­man
outside the new building after.the dedication. (LEADER photos
by Walter Warren) •
Don't Forget
To
Vote
March 19
7 AM to 9 PM
The Freeporf
POLiTrc^
THE LEADER Interviews the Candidates
Dorothy
Storm
Neighbors visiting^ little
children dropping by to play with
a pet mynah bird, an aiways-bu§y
telephone, and Dorothy Storm's
own children hohie from school
trooping in and ouL.. that's a
typical, quiet, at-home afteraoon
with Trustee Storm. Through it
all, she answered questions with
poise, composure and an honest
direcUiess. -^
Bom and raised In Brooklyh,"
Dorothy Storm attended Beaver
College In Pennsylvania. Next,
she was a Girl I'rtday in a Wall
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Carroll
Belt
Constantly rushing, as he has
been, from one meeting to
another, THE LEADER in­terviewed
Carroir Belt, and Ws
gracious wife Edith, in our own
offices. parroU was born in 1932
in Washington, D.C. where he
attended elementary, junior.hlgh
and high school, and then decided
he wanted to go away to college,
"Away from home," he said,
"but close to home too," and so
with scholastic and athletic
scholarships available to*~him
from Syracuse, Cornell, Ren-
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Vincent
Rondozzo
Vincent Randazzo, candidate
for Trustee; stopped in at THE
LEADER'S offices the other day
and we were able to have a short
cha! with him. He told us that he
has lived in Freeport for 45 years,
having moved here from the City
with his parents. For over™30^
years he has been a licensed Real'
Estate Broker and has, he feels,
"a good knowledge of housing,
rentals, and selling," He had an
office for many ^ears on
Brooklyn Avenue, _ Freepbrt, but
now does business "privately."
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Primary JobJs To Attract
New Businesses,Residents
MiKEPOItT - Mayor William H. While and the Villo«c- Hoard r.f
TruHlecs, at a Press ConferencB ta.s{ .Friday, introduced Freeport's
new Director of ^Etonomie Development....Iloherl J. Cohen, Jr.
Mr. C«hen, who comes to l-'reeport from his riiilive Pillsburgh,
I'onn.sylvanla, sueeeeded over fi7 other applicant.s'for (he $22,«(i() a
year poailion,
Cohen, who s|)ent two days
lijoking over Freeport before lii.s
fir.st interview with u .screening
cormtuttee of Frcep<jrt business
and profcisional people, said, "I
intend la walk this town hloek by
block and talk to everyone I can."
Then, he will mal^e an ahalynis
and start motivating changes and
improvements.
Cohen added thai he fx;liev«s.
"The potential for development is
very high here. We have a lot of
Helling advantages that very few
towns anywhere else in this
coutflry have." He went on lo
.specifically point to f'Yeeyjorl's'
municipal "electrical geiH;rator
facility which is a selling p<»int to
a bOsincss and to a residential
developer," other municipal
services which are a plu.s value,
local hanker.'i (three of whom
"sounded enlhusia,slic about
starling lo Invest money here."J
and real estate and bu.sine.'.s men
who talk positively about
Freeport. He said that "Ihe al­titude
is here - but ha.s to be
•surfaced."
Mayor White classified Cohen
as "a profes.«sionaJ doer who can
motlvale people to a cooperative
effort." Cohen added, "1 am not a
money spender. You have lo get
down to the grass roots to change
the image."
With reference to the central
business district Cohen said,
"Stores can be spruced up
wilhoul (he expenditure (»f a lot of
money, aiid the sprucing up can
mean revilalization. It is up to the
Ijusiness community. H is up lo
Ihe resident.s. ft is not only up.to
lhei«»lilicals)ru(rliire. They must
all mesli."
The Mayor pi)jnte<l out ilial
Cohen's unique background
encompasses exactly Ihe type of
development experience,
planning and promotional ability
required by Ihe muKi-faceied
nature of the job to be dorie.. '
Cohen spent the lasl three
years as Executive I)irectf>r of
f^itrsburgti's North .Side Civic
Development Council. The
Council is a hrm-profit, cor-fK)
raielj'_ financed organizaiion
concerTit'd with the economic,
physical and social renaissance
of arr old established section of
the City, comprising 83,859
people. He was closely involved
in cwirdinating various govern­mental
activities in 19 highway,
rehabililation, renewal and
private projects, financed by
local, county, .stale and federal
funds in excess of $2<X) million.
Cohen aL-jo ha.s governmental
experience as Assistant
Executive .Secretary to former
Fjllsburgh Mayor Jo-^'ph M,
Barr and as Project Co-Ordinator
for ihe Public Itelaiions
Department of the Port Authority
of Allegheny County, Penn­sylvania.
A NEW LOOK. Freeport Mayor Wiillam White (right) looks, on at
Turstees Dorothy Storm and Ralph Franco congratulate RotMrt
Cohen (2nd from right} on hif appointment as the Vlllage'f Difector
of Economic.Development. The position wai created to attract de­sirable
new liusinesses and residents to Freeport, Frohn left are Leo
Young,/?oflar Roddy arid Pctar Baer/nfiWnbBrsaf the screening com­mittee,
which interviewed tii0 68 applicants for the potltion/Other
members of the committee were Sig Feile. Sara Holly, Butch
Khanamirian, Jacques Nevard and Larry Yanover, ,
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